Nyake Surname
Approximately 1,708 people bear this surname
Nyake Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 1,603 | 1:12,956 | 1,762 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| South Africa | 20 | 1:2,708,885 | 106,094 |
| Nigeria | 19 | 1:9,323,303 | 191,560 |
| Ivory Coast | 14 | 1:1,647,945 | 32,915 |
| Indonesia | 9 | 1:14,694,355 | 460,137 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Sierra Leone | 4 | 1:1,772,408 | 958 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
The alternate forms: Nyakè (1) are calculated separately.
Nyake (70) may also be a first name.
Nyake Demographics
Average Nyake Salary in
South Africa
R 21,540
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Nyake Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nyake Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nyake is more commonly found in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can occur in the variant forms: Nyakè. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Nyake? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 235,556th most widely held surname in the world, held by around 1 in 4,266,713 people. The last name Nyake occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Nyake are found; 95 percent are found in Central Africa and 94 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,162,016th most widely held given name worldwide, held by 70 people.
This surname is most frequently used in Cameroon, where it is carried by 1,603 people, or 1 in 12,956. In Cameroon it is primarily found in: Littoral Region, where 62 percent live, Southwest Region, where 17 percent live and Centre Region, where 14 percent live. Besides Cameroon this last name occurs in 18 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 1 percent live and South Africa, where 1 percent live.
Nyake Last Name Statistics demography
Nyake earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 90.94% less than the national average, earning R 21,540 per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Nyake
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